Deprecated: Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces is deprecated in /www/libraryLand/subs/children-s/engine/classes/templates.class.php on line 232 Call Stack: 0.0003 408680 1. {main}() /www/libraryLand/subs/children-s/engine/rss.php:0 Paul Starkey - Free Library Land Online - Children's https://children-s.library.land/ ru Paul Starkey - Free Library Land Online - Children's DataLife Engine Sarajevo Firewood https://children-s.library.land/paul-starkey/648371-sarajevo_firewood.html https://children-s.library.land/paul-starkey/648371-sarajevo_firewood.html Sarajevo Firewood
Sarajevo Firewood, which was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) award in 2020, explores the legacy of the recent histories of two countries – Algeria and Bosnia and Herzegovina – both of which experienced traumatic, and ultimately futile, civil wars in the 1990s. The novel narrates the lives of two main characters, with their friends and families: Salim, an Algerian journalist, and Ivana, a young Bosnian woman, both of whom have fled the destruction and hatred of their own countries to try to build a new life in Slovenia. As Ivana pursues her goal of writing her 'dream play', Khatibi's novel brings to life in fictional form the memories and experiences of the countless ordinary people who survived the atrocities linking the two countries. As such, it represents both a lasting memorial to the thousands of dead and 'disappeared' of the two countries' civil conflicts, and a powerful and novel exploration of the experience of exile to...]]> Tue, 06 Jun 2017 13:31:51 +0300 The Lazarus Conundrum https://children-s.library.land/paul-starkey/401161-the_lazarus_conundrum.html https://children-s.library.land/paul-starkey/401161-the_lazarus_conundrum.html The Lazarus Conundrum
In a world where the dead routinely return to life, the most shocking mystery is when someone doesn't.Detective Inspector Helen Ogilvy is called to the scene of a murder. A young woman named Trinity Brown has been shot in the chest, and she's stayed dead.The potential end to the zombie affliction should be a huge positive, but for a future UK teetering on the brink of becoming a police state, a country where healthcare has never been so well funded because lower mortality rates equal fewer zombies, the truth behind Trinity Brown's non-resurrection has the potential to cause chaos, which is why a shadowy Government figure has persuaded Helen's boss to keep a lid on what's happened, at least for the moment.Now Helen has two days to solve two mysteries. Who killed Trinity Brown, and why did she stay dead?]]> Tue, 25 Nov 2003 21:02:31 +0200 Safe House https://children-s.library.land/paul-starkey/401160-safe_house.html https://children-s.library.land/paul-starkey/401160-safe_house.html Safe House
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